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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goumindong" data-source="post: 4442789" data-attributes="member: 70874">You don't need to roll every attack for an NPC to fall into the trap that you fell into. You only need to believe that the NPC must be statted to deal with whatever he is supposed to have done and not statted to deal with the Players when they engage him.E.G. if i wanted to have an "invulnverable NPC" i would "stat" him as a really high level normal monster so that the players could never prevail against him(i wouldn't stat him at all, the players would just only hit on a 20 and he would always hit them except on a 1). But, when the time came to fight that NPC and it would have to be a tough fight, i would stat him as a level appropriate solo. And the DM roughly does have a crystal ball. Because they know1. What things that are around the PC's can win against2. What things that are around the PC's will flatten3. what things that are around that the PC's can't hope to handle.2 and 3 you don't need to worry about, you just handwave it. 1 you do need to worry about.You are worrying about 2 and 3 for no good reason, making you take up your precious time when you could be doing something productive and gaining literally no benefit out of it.Why would an NPC paladin have the same powers as a player Paladin? There is no reason to have these rules consistent. What only needs to be consistent is how the NPC feels. If you want the paladin to kill everything, you can make him do so. If you want him to have to put up a fight, you can make him do so. But he isn't a "level 20 paladin". He is an NPC that is at whatever strength he needs to be for the purpose of whatever encounter you are running.(for instance, its a lot better to stat "big strong NPCs" as lower level solo creatures to show how awesome they are rather than to stat them as higher level normal creatures. Since once you break the +4-5 barrier they become a handwave)Birthright fundamentally changed the core mechanic of play. And "and you get a keep" has nothing to do with changing the core mechanic of play. You like sitting around and doing nothing?At its heart of what it does, it is not. Characters get together and solve problems whatever those problems may be.The only thing that differs is the depth and level of involvement in the story. What matters is that what the worlds stats are don't matter until that part of the world comes into conflict with the players.He said it. He is the one complaining that "NPC Farmers can kill ogres in a lucky hit".</blockquote>

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